Abbas Amanat

In matters of...

Appearance in the public, of course, it may seem to us as kind of trivial and secondary, but appearance is important.

Clothing is important.

How you would imagine yourself is important.

They don't want to be seen in the way that the authorities would like to impose upon them as this kind of an idea of a chaste Islamic woman who is...

fully covered and is fully protected.

The idea of a male member of the family protects the female.

That is what you would see at the heart of this rebellion.

And of course, that goes with everything else.

The second part of this message, the idea of life,

basically means, if you like to use the American equivalent of this, the pursuit of the happiness.

That's what they want.

They want fun.

They want music.

They want dancing.

They want to be free in the street.

They want to have girlfriends.

and live freely and don't be constantly looked by the big brother to tell them what to do and not to do or not to do.

So that they share virtually with the entire Iranian society as a whole.

Although the older generations, that's a big puzzle.